EP1271430B1 - Machine for preparing and vending hot sandwiches - Google Patents

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EP1271430B1
EP1271430B1 EP01909836A EP01909836A EP1271430B1 EP 1271430 B1 EP1271430 B1 EP 1271430B1 EP 01909836 A EP01909836 A EP 01909836A EP 01909836 A EP01909836 A EP 01909836A EP 1271430 B1 EP1271430 B1 EP 1271430B1
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José M RUIZ HUERTAS
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    • G07F17/0064—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for processing of food articles
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    • G07F11/46—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports
    • G07F11/50—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rotatably mounted
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    • G07F11/58—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the articles being supported on or by endless belts or like conveyors
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    • G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
    • G07F9/10—Casings or parts thereof, e.g. with means for heating or cooling
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    • G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
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  • This invention is a machine for making and dispensing hot sandwiches.
  • the machine is of the type which comprises a refrigerated chamber with two vertical longitudinal carousels.
  • the sandwiches suitably wrapped, are stored individually on the platforms of these carousels, and are pushed one after the other towards an electric grill through the opening in the door which seals off the refrigerated chamber and supports the grill. Once heated and toasted, the sandwiches are dispensed to the consumer who has activated the machine. The consumer picks the sandwiches from a collector through an opening in the front door of the machine.
  • EP 0 896 303 discloses a method and apparatus for preparing and expending hot sandwiches. The procedure consists in first wrapping the formed sandwich in aluminum foil or suitable paper, placing it in a refrigerating chamber and conveying it to a grill, wherefrom, once heated, it is conveyed to a dispenser from where it is removed by the consumer.
  • the machine comprises a refrigerating chamber, two doors, one for closing the chamber, inside of which at least one carrousel is provided for storing the wrapped sandwiches, and another for closing over the first door and forming a second chamber inside of which is fitted the grill for heating the sandwich received through an opening of the first door, a dispenser, where the sandwich is moved for dispensing; and a tray storage unit.
  • the machine has two carousels arranged transversely from front to rear of the refrigerated chamber. Between them is a central pusher device which shifts the sandwiches to the grill from a platform. Prior to this, the sandwiches are transferred to the platform from the carousels by corresponding pusher devices.
  • the two carousels face each other, with one ahead of the other, so that both sandwiches may be positioned on the platform at the same time. From here, the central pusher device moves them both to the grill where they are heated. The machine can, then, serve the consumer with two sandwiches in the same time as it takes to make one.
  • the central pusher device has the advantage that it is actuated by a spiral spring wound on a rotating disc, enabling the refrigerated chamber to be less deep than if a different type of mechanism were used to actuate the pusher.
  • the refrigerating unit that cools the refrigerated chamber is installed in a compartment at the bottom and back of the chamber. It includes a turbine at the top and a longitudinal air outlet at the bottom.
  • This machine is also fitted with a condiment supplier.
  • these condiments would be ketchup and mustard, contained in sachets held between the turns of a spiral rod.
  • This rod mounted in a channel and actuated by turning, constitutes the supplier. It is fitted behind the front door of the machine with access to the sandwich collector, on to which the sachets fall individually.
  • figure 5 is a cross-section on a larger scale of these condiment suppliers, as indicated by the section line V-V on figure 4.
  • the figures illustrate that the sandwich-making and dispensing machine has a metal cabinet -1- inside which is the refrigerated chamber -2-. Opposite the chamber mouth and fitted crosswise from front to back are the two vertical longitudinal carousels -3-. These face each other, though one is ahead of the other (see figure 2), and turn around their respective pairs of end cylinders -4- (figure 3). Both pairs of cylinders are actuated by their respective motors -5-, to which the top ends of the cylinders are coupled.
  • the carousels -3- each contain series of platforms -6- on which suitably wrapped sandwiches -b- are arranged.
  • the sandwiches comprise sticks of bread and the corresponding cooked meats or other foodstuffs.
  • the tubular shape of the platforms -6- envelops the sandwich -b- (figure 3) and holds it in place whatever the position of the platform -6- in the carousel -3-.
  • This tubular platform -6- shape is not completely closed to allow the pusher blades -7a- on their respective pusher devices -7- to enter by sliding along the horizontal guides -8-. Each one faces a carousel -3- on the top front of the refrigerated chamber -2-.
  • These pusher devices -7- actuated by their respective motors -9-move the sandwich(es) -b- from one carousel or the other, or from both at once, to a central platform -10- installed in the chamber -2- between the two carousels -3- (figure 2). From here, the sandwich or sandwiches -b- are moved to the electric grill -11- by the blade -12- on a further pusher device -12a-, also fitted on the refrigerated chamber -2- behind the platform -10-.
  • This platform -10- has two sides, -10'- and -10"-, cut-out and jointed with the rest of the platform (figures 1 and 2) and arranged vertically downwards. These receive the sandwiches -b- from the carousels -3-, since as the sandwiches are longer than the platforms -6- that hold them and overhang at both sides, they bump into the platform -10- when the carousels -3- turn, lifting and aligning the above-mentioned parts -10'- and -10"- with the rest of the platform -10- when the carousels stop.
  • This lifting of parts -10'- and -10"- of the platform -10- enables the sandwiches -b- to be shifted from the carousels -3- to the platform -10- via such parts.
  • the lifting motion is produced by the action of a device -10a- consisting of a motor-driven eccentric with two arms jointed to parts -10'- and -10"-.
  • the device is fitted under the platform -10- (figure 1).
  • the pusher device -12- has a blade -12a- linked at its rear face to the end of a spiral spring -13- wound on a rotating disc -14- installed to the rear of and under this blade.
  • the motor -15- driving the device is actuated, the spring is opened out, pushing and moving the blade -12a- forward along an upper horizontal guide (not shown).
  • This pusher device -12- carries the sandwich -b- on the platform -10- with it to the grill -11-. It gains access to the grill through an opening -16- in the door -17- that closes off the chamber -2- and on whose front face the grill is fitted (figures 2 and 3).
  • the front mouth of the opening mentioned has a flap-door -16'- jointed at the top.
  • the sandwich -b- will now be laid on the bottom fixed plate -11'- of the grill -11 -, while the top plate -11"- is fixed to a top mounting - 11a - which is jointed to the bottom end of an upper frame -18- and to an eccentric and connecting rod device -19 - forming part of the frame -18-.
  • This device when driven by a motor -20-, presses the top plate -11"- on to the sandwich -b-, thereby heating and toasting it.
  • the sandwich -b- is pushed off the grill -11- by a side pusher device -21- similar to the pusher devices -7- and installed on the front face of the door -17-.
  • the sandwich -b- falls onto a collector -22- which, forming part of frame 23 of a second door -24-included in the cabinet -1-, is fitted to the rear face of this door.
  • This second door -24- closes onto the door -17- forming the front face of the cabinet -1-.
  • the sachets -s- with their corresponding condiments are laid out crosswise in the channels -27- with their bottom halves housed in them and fitting between the turns of the above-mentioned spiral rods -26-.
  • these spiral rods are driven by their respective motors -29- fitted behind mounting -28- and coupled to the rods through it, the sachets -s- are moved until they fall into the collector -22-.
  • This collector -22- is fitted at one side of the rear face of door -24-, which has an opening -22'- giving access to the collector from the outside to pick up the sandwiches -b- and sachets -s-.
  • the channels -27- housing the sachets are divided lengthwise into two parts, a fixed one -27'- and one that can move transversely - 27"- to adjust to varying lengths of sachet -s- (figure 5).
  • the moving parts -27"- of the channels -27- are suitably fastened to mountings -28- and -28a- through table openings -30- made in them.
  • the refrigerating unit for the refrigerated chamber -2- is installed in the compartment at the bottom and back of the chamber formed by a hollow section -31- that is wider at the bottom and has a longitudinal air outlet -31'-, and by a much narrower top part situated between the two carousels and which includes a turbine -31"-.

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  • Refrigerator Housings (AREA)
  • Confectionery (AREA)
  • Control Of Vending Devices And Auxiliary Devices For Vending Devices (AREA)
  • Bakery Products And Manufacturing Methods Therefor (AREA)
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  • Baking, Grill, Roasting (AREA)
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ES200000624A ES2160547B1 (es) 2000-03-07 2000-03-07 Maquina para la preparacion y expedicion de bocadillos calientes.
ES200000624 2000-03-07
PCT/ES2001/000077 WO2001067404A1 (es) 2000-03-07 2001-03-02 Maquina para la preparacion y expendicion de bocadillos calientes

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